Very well; a serious reply for you. The last rally got my county several thousand dollars for public kitchens, homeless shelters, and school nurses. It also increased membership for LGBTQ+ ally organizations, did good messaging for an RCV initiative, created an original protest song, and got me a free hotdog.

I really don’t care what the fascist thinks about our rally. If he’s smart, he will feel fear.

Both cynical and deluded for me, thanks.

But really, we’re on uplifting news. Let people hope for a few minutes. You have the whole rest of lemmy to be depressed on.

Wow, the article is psychic. First 4 paragraphs literally written for you, the cynic. Amazing.

This is false afaict. ICE enforcement is considered essential, so they (like military members) will get backpay, but are not paid during the shutdown. See: https://apnews.com/article/trump-federal-shutdown-paid-congress-jeffries-schumer-thune-9ecc7db2e689c45d288268aabf061498

For a long while, I had hoped it was at least 6 physical places, with various redundancies. A few billion small-ish servers at internet network hubs.

That or the magical floating bits that go over hackers heads in the movies. Those also look like the cloud. Not very secure, but quite convenient.

This is a clear example where ‘the cloud’ really is a physical place.

Apologies for being an american late to the party; but how can these boundaries be principled? Why are there only 9? I notice that the 2 we haven’t crossed are crises that globalization more-or-less addressed a long while ago (CFCs?). Why is the global report supported by exactly 2 organizations (both of which are new to me; though I see that they claim large staffs).

Thank you for saying something! Can’t believe I didn’t check myself.

It also lead to me finding this: https://theoceancleanup.com/dashboard/

If I understand correctly, system 3 is the one most relevant to the great garbage patch. It’s currently at port, and has been for nearly a year. Not sure what to make of this.

I went ahead and did the calculation; I think I’m getting about 4 weeks (extrapolating from the last year, 20k dead kids -> 2 weeks of silence. Doubled for the two years.).

Lower than I expected. I’m guessing I haven’t internalized that gaza is still a fairly small area, thus with a small population? Or was the first year substantially more deadly than the last (which really would surprise me)?

I personally don’t understand the logic of this symbolic act of protest, but I often don’t understand how protest is supposed to function. It did pull more attention towards gaza, and attention is everything.

Would a better protest be to keep the invite, but plaster the space with material about the genocide? Let the person quit if this offends them (which would probably be a more sympathetic headline and just as newsworthy) and make a story out of the performance if they don’t (which should be very photogenic).